DUTCH FORCES
NAVAL, MILITARY & AIR■ CONSIDERABLE STRENGTH. SINKINGS OF ENEMY SHIPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, January 26. The Netherlands Government reveals that the Dutch forces in the East Indies include between 500 and 1000 American planes, an army of 125,000 fully-trained men, and also five cruisers, eight destroyers, eight torpedo-boats, 20 submarines, and many smaller craft. Since December 7 Dutch naval and air forces have sunk two Japanese cruisers, 11 transports, two tankers, and two merchantmen, and damaged at least one aircraft-carrier, eight cruisers, four destroyers, 14 transports and also a large warship and a passenger shift
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1942, Page 3
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